README -  France Datasets	

Project:  Skinner Spatial Analysis Project
Department:  Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
Project Director:  Peter K. Bol
Project Manager:  Lex Berman

Data Creators:

G. William Skinner
Ted W. Margadant


DISCLAIMER:  

The France datasets were not finalized.  Attempts to edit the files could not verify if the names or joined variables were correct.  

Code Manuals for France datasets are not confirmed to match with the published data layers.

contact email:  chgis@fas.harvard.edu

UPDATED:  2018-03-23

SEE RELATED DOCUMENT:  FRANCE_DATASETS_COORDINATE_SYSTEMS

CONTENTS:

1)  FranceA_pgn   (arrondissements)

Features: 371 polygons
Charset Encoding:  ISO-8859-1


2)  FranceA_pts  (arrondissements)

Features: 372 points
Charset Encoding:  ISO-8859-1


3)  FranceC   (cities)

Title:  FranceC Dataset: Cities, Towns, and Urban Communes, 1806-96

Features: 2767 points
Charset Encoding:  ISO-8859-1
Data Dictionary:  FranceC_code_manual.pdf
Temporal context:  1806-96


4)  FranceM  (communes)

Features: 366 polygons
Charset Encoding:  ISO-8859-1


4)  FranceN  (cantons)

Features: 2996 polygons
Charset Encoding:  ISO-8859-1



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3)  Data Dictionary

FranceC_code_manual.pdf

FranceN_code_manual.pdf

FranceM code manuals not found.


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